SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

The future of plant life on Mars may be bioplastic.Green algae (Dunaliella tertiolecta) flourished under Mars-like conditions inside translucent, bioplastic habitats, researchers report July 2 in Science Advances. Algae or plants that produce bioplastics grown inside the habitats could...

About 600 miles off the west coast of Africa, large clusters of thunderstorms begin organizing into tropical storms every hurricane season. They aren’t yet in range of Hurricane Hunter flights, so forecasters at the National...

Former health secretary Matt Hancock has denied claims the government's attempt to throw a protective ring around care homes in 2020, early in the Covid pandemic, was empty rhetoric.In an irritable exchange he urged the Covid Inquiry to focus...

How do you search for a substance that doesn't give off any kind of light, but has a gravitational influence that shapes galaxies? That's the challenge researchers face as they try...

A chatbot might not break a sweat every time you ask it to make your shopping list or come up with its best dad jokes. But over time, the planet might.As generative AI such as large language models (LLMS)...

Liverpool John Moores University. NatureProf Joel Irish at Liverpool John Moores University conducted a detailed analysis of the skeleton to build up a picture of the man as an individual."What I wanted to do was to find out who...

Tim DoddClimate and science reporterGetty Images"Drought is not just a weather event – it can be a social, economic, and environmental emergency," said report co-author Dr Kelly Helm Smith. "The question is not whether this will happen again, but...

Mark Poynting, Jess Carr and Phil LeakeBBC Climate and Verify data journalism teamsGetty ImagesIf you live in north-west England or Yorkshire, you are already in an official state of drought, the Environment Agency says, and people living in other...

Two meteorological missions – Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission – have launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.Both are world-class Earth observation missions developed with European partners to...

The International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia holds up a mirror to the industry —...